218: Step onto the eleventh floor

The reason the heavenly secret box was so sought after by countless people on the Tianwu Continent was because it could yield all sorts of items.

Even powerful objects of high status had a chance to be obtained from a heavenly secret box!

Under normal circumstances,

Xiao Shi naturally wouldn't have been confident in obtaining something comparable to a fragment of the celestial compass.

But now, he was in a period of exploding luck.

There was definitely hope!

"The heavens secret mask I obtained last time is worth far more than a fragment of the celestial compass!"

Xiao Shi's heart was full of anticipation.

He had originally planned to open the heavenly secret box while his luck was peaking.

He looked at the heavenly secret box in his hand.

The entire heavenly secret box was covered in complex and obscure secret runes.

These secret runes were the key to the heavenly secret box.

Only by deciphering the key

Could the heavenly secret box be opened.

Xiao Shi had already studied it carefully before.

It was incredibly difficult for an ordinary person to decipher the key on it.

These keys were like scrambled code.

Irregular and very complex.

Even intelligent people skilled in deciphering would often need an extremely long time to crack it.

However, that was only for others.

For Xiao Shi, the Hall Master of Tianji Hall... Buzz!

He brushed his hand over the heavenly secret box.

The secret runes on the box immediately began to twist and squirm.

They formed themselves into the correct recessed pattern, resembling a Bagua.

He didn't need to decipher the key at all; he could open it directly using his authority as the Hall Master of Tianji Hall.

Xiao Shi reached out.

He pressed his finger onto the pattern.

Buzz!

The moment his finger touched the pattern,

The entire pattern seemed to be activated.

It suddenly began to spin at high speed.

And amidst this high-speed rotation,

A huge wheel was projected behind Xiao Shi.

The entire wheel was also spinning continuously at an extremely fast speed.

This gave Xiao Shi an indescribable, eerie feeling.

It was as if he were currently bound by some sort of rule.

His entire body fell into a state of stillness, unable to move.

It was just like the last time he opened a heavenly secret box.

Although the types of the two heavenly secret boxes were different, opening them always required bearing a random price!

Although Xiao Shi couldn't turn his head to look,

He could clearly feel the wheel spinning behind him.

He also knew that many different prices existed on the wheel.

When the wheel stopped spinning,

He would bear the price corresponding to his position on the wheel.

The wheel's speed grew slower and slower.

Soon,

The entire wheel stopped rotating.

In Xiao Shi's perception,

The wheel behind him appeared blurred, making it impossible to see what prices were on it.

He could only see

That at the position on the wheel corresponding to him, a pattern of a person slipping appeared.

Almost the instant he saw this pattern,

Xiao Shi felt his feet slip.

He actually couldn't stand steadily.

He fell down instantly.

"It seems the price this time takes effect immediately..."

Xiao Shi climbed up from the ground.

This was different from the last price.

The price for opening the heavenly secret box last time was a pattern of a ball of fire, but that price had yet to manifest.

It would appear at some point in the future.

"The time the price takes effect should also be related to my luck."

"The better my luck, the earlier the price takes effect..."

Xiao Shi analyzed in his mind.

It was definitely more beneficial for such a price to take effect as early as possible.

If it took effect at some unknown moment,

If his situation was dire and he was in a life-and-death crisis, and the price for opening the heavenly secret box suddenly appeared, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Although the price Xiao Shi paid for opening the heavenly secret box this time was small,

If he were to suddenly slip during a life-and-death battle, it could very likely put him in a fatal situation.

Now, he didn't have to worry about the price of opening the heavenly secret box this time appearing at some future point.

He only needed to be wary of the price from the previous time he opened a heavenly secret box.

"I hope it doesn't appear when I'm in a crisis..."

Xiao Shi thought to himself.

Now, as the heavenly secret box opened,

He quickly focused his gaze inside the box.

At a glance, he saw

That inside the box was a dark-gold war staff.

While the war staff was inside the box, it looked only as large as a palm.

But when Xiao Shi took it out,

It instantly transformed into a staff over two meters long.

Not only was the entire war staff dark-gold in color,

But four marble-sized spherical orbs also orbited around it.

They were red, white, purple, and black.

These four orbs gave Xiao Shi an extremely powerful sense of pressure.

On the red orb, he felt a surging heat; it was as if a world of flames was contained within the small sphere.

Then, from the white orb, he felt a harsh cold; the interior of the sphere seemed like a world of ice and snow.

The purple orb represented violent purple lightning.

The black orb was a pitch-black world of torrential rain.

Four orbs.

Each brought Xiao Shi a different sensation!

Every single orb made his heart tremble with fear.

And this was while the four orbs were in a restrained state, their internal power not yet erupted.

The sheer power of these four orbs alone made Xiao Shi realize that the status of this war staff was definitely not low!

Soon,

Information regarding the war staff appeared before his eyes.

[Name: ???]

[Type: ???]

[Grade: ???]

[Description: ???]

[Note: Rank insufficient, unable to view.]

..."As expected!"

Xiao Shi wasn't surprised.

The status of this war staff clearly exceeded his current Realm by far.

Resulting in him being completely unable to see the information about the war staff.

In that case,

He wouldn't be able to judge the war staff's specific value.

Xiao Shi frowned.

But after thinking about it carefully,

Since the purple treasure plate was used for exchanges based on an item's value, putting an item into the purple treasure plate might display its corresponding value.

Thinking of this,

Xiao Shi tried placing the war staff in his hand into the purple treasure plate.

Then he stared intently at the purple treasure plate.

Soon, he saw a numerical value on the treasure token.

Value Points: 675

Xiao Shi's heart stirred.

It was just as he had guessed.

So next, he only needed to know the specific value of the fragment of the celestial compass to know if he could exchange for it.

However, Xiao Shi wasn't in a hurry to return to the Myriad Treasure Pagoda immediately.

The good luck effect brought by the Blood Luck Pill still persisted.

He couldn't let it go to waste.

He moved,

Immediately beginning more hunts in the surrounding area.

Before this,

He had already considered that after using the Blood Luck Pill to kill these Sword-backed Beasts, the good luck effect would likely continue.

Therefore, the location he chose

Happened to be a place where Vicious Beasts frequently appeared.

This way, he could maximize the effect of the Blood Luck Pill.

Not long after,

Six more Vicious Beasts appeared ahead of him.

These six Vicious Beasts all had strength comparable to the Martial Soul Realm.

However, these six Vicious Beasts weren't like the Sword-backed Beasts, which had powerful attacks but average Physical Bodies.

These six Vicious Beasts all possessed incredibly tough Physical Bodies.

Even with Xiao Shi's current strength, killing them wouldn't be easy.

For Vicious Beasts with strength comparable to the Martial Soul Realm, Xiao Shi wasn't afraid of their high damage; he was afraid of their bodies being too tough and their vitality being too tenacious.

Making it impossible to kill them for a long time.

Ultimately,

He was still only in the Blood Martial Realm.

Although he could already achieve kills against higher-ranked opponents,

Facing Vicious Beasts with excessively powerful Physical Bodies was still very taxing.

But just as Xiao Shi was pondering how to finish off these Vicious Beasts as quickly as possible,

As he drew closer,

He suddenly discovered... that these Vicious Beasts were all lying on the ground.

Their bodies were covered in wounds.

Several Vicious Beasts even had multiple bloody holes in their bodies, with blood constantly flowing out, leaving them on the verge of death.

It seemed that not long ago,

A battle had just taken place here.

Resulting in all six Vicious Beasts being injured.

Xiao Shi looked surprised.

He had stayed here for several days before without ever encountering such a situation... yet now, after just a few casual steps, he had come across heavily injured Vicious Beasts.

"So this is... luck."

Xiao Shi sighed with emotion.

Although he had known for a long time that an increase in luck didn't just allow him to obtain rare drops from kills,

All of his actions would also transcend common sense due to the increase in luck.

But he had still underestimated the benefits of exploding luck... this feeling of being a chosen one.

Was simply too great!

If only it could last forever.

Soon,

The six Vicious Beasts, which would have originally taken a lot of effort to kill, were easily finished off by him.

After picking up the purple treasure plates dropped by these six Vicious Beasts after their deaths,

Xiao Shi moved,

Continuing to search for more Vicious Beasts.

With his powerful luck, he didn't even need to search deliberately.

After just a few steps,

He would encounter more Vicious Beasts.

And all the Vicious Beasts he encountered had something wrong with them,

Making it completely effortless for him to kill them.

"I didn't expect the Sword-backed Beasts from before to be the hardest to kill..."

Xiao Shi's kills along the way were all very easy.

He even encountered relatively powerful Martial Soul Realm Vicious Beasts,

But they were also easily killed by him.

Just like that,

Until evening,

Through killing these Vicious Beasts, Xiao Shi had successfully collected nearly two hundred purple treasure plates.

This meant he could exchange for nearly two hundred treasures from the Myriad Treasure Pagoda.

At the same time,

Pfft!

As Xiao Shi killed a massive Vicious Beast in front of him,

He suddenly saw

That the treasure token dropped by this massive Vicious Beast after its death was no longer purple.

"Huh?"

"Could it be that my good luck has ended?"

Xiao Shi picked up the treasure token in confusion.

Information about the treasure token quickly appeared in his field of vision.

[Name: golden treasure plate]

[Type: Token]

[Grade: None]

[Description: A treasure token originating from the Myriad Treasure Pagoda. This is the highest-Rank treasure token among all treasure tokens. With this token, one can unconditionally exchange for any single item within the Myriad Treasure Pagoda. Only one such token exists.]

[Note: This item can only exist within the Realm; it will disappear once it leaves the Realm.]

...Xiao Shi's mind was shaken violently!

An indescribable joy welled up within him.

He had originally thought the purple treasure plate was the highest-Rank treasure token among them all.

He never expected... that an even higher-Rank golden treasure plate existed above the purple treasure plate!

What excited him even more

Was that the exchange for the golden treasure plate had no conditions!

He could unconditionally exchange for an item from the Myriad Treasure Pagoda!

This way, even if the items in his purple treasure plates weren't enough to exchange for the fragment of the celestial compass, he could use the golden treasure plate to exchange for it directly!

The drop of this golden treasure plate indicated that he would certainly be able to get his hands on the fragment of the celestial compass!

"It's just a pity."

"That only one golden treasure plate exists!"

"If there were more, with my current luck, I'd be rich!"

Xiao Shi thought to himself.

Until late at night,

As Xiao Shi killed a Vicious Beast and it dropped a Green Treasure Token, he knew his good luck had ended.

This time, he had obtained a total of over three hundred purple treasure plates.

Xiao Shi knew that such a quantity of purple treasure plates had likely never appeared in this Realm since its inception.

If the natives here knew he had so many purple treasure plates, they would come to destroy him and seize them, even if they were under a prohibition.

With his good luck over,

Xiao Shi didn't stay there any longer.

He was well aware

That before, it was because of his good luck that killing these Vicious Beasts was effortless and without pressure.

Now that he had returned to a normal state,

He couldn't be as reckless as before.

After all, he still needed to be careful here.

This place wasn't absolutely safe.

There were also powerful Vicious Beasts capable of killing him.

Moving forward cautiously all the way,

Two days later,

Xiao Shi successfully returned to the area of the Myriad Treasure Pagoda.

"Now I can proceed with exchanging for the fragment of the celestial compass!"

Xiao Shi thought excitedly.

He walked straight into the Myriad Treasure Pagoda.

First, he used a purple treasure plate to check the value of the treasures in the Myriad Treasure Pagoda.

Although he now had a golden treasure plate that could exchange for any treasure, if the value of the items in his purple treasure plates was sufficient, he still planned to use them to exchange for the fragment of the celestial compass.

That way, the golden treasure plate could be used for an even better treasure!

He knew

That within the Myriad Treasure Pagoda, the fragment of the celestial compass was not the absolute best treasure.

This could be seen from the floor levels.

"If I'm not mistaken, the best treasure in the Myriad Treasure Pagoda should be on the twelfth floor!"

Xiao Shi's eyes shone with light.

He really wanted to go up and see.

What would the treasure on the twelfth floor be?

He took a deep breath.

The moment he took out a purple treasure plate,

He immediately saw new exchange information on the treasure in front of him.

Exchange Condition 1: 1 white treasure token.

Exchange Condition 2: 1 Value Point...

"As expected!"

"With the purple treasure plate, I can see the Value Points for every treasure in the Myriad Treasure Pagoda!"

Since he was currently still on the first floor,

The treasures here were all relatively low in terms of Value Points.

Xiao Shi naturally wouldn't use his high-value purple treasure plates to get these low-value treasures.

Usually, one purple treasure plate could only be exchanged for one item.

In other words,

If Xiao Shi used his purple treasure plate to exchange for such a low-value item,

The purple treasure plate would disappear directly after the exchange.

It wouldn't be a case where Value Points were deducted and the purple treasure plate remained.

He couldn't use one high-value item to exchange for many low-value items.

"Meaning..."

"A purple treasure plate can exchange for treasures of lower value than itself, but it cannot exchange for treasures of higher value than itself."

Xiao Shi realized.

He headed all the way up.

Without stopping at all,

He came directly to the eleventh floor, which he hadn't dared to step onto before.

Whoosh!

Almost at the instant Xiao Shi stepped onto the eleventh floor,

Outside the Realm,

The Black Robed Man, who had been watching everything,

Trembled violently, his breathing suddenly becoming hurried.

"He's here!"

"He's finally here!"

"The Hall Master of Tianji Hall has appeared!!"

His words

Were clearly heard by the Star Luo Territory Lord and the others nearby.

This made their eyes brighten instantly,

Filled with urgency and excitement.

They watched the Black Robed Man.

"We finally get to know who the Hall Master of Tianji Hall is!"